The definition of “conflict-of-interest” has become so broadly defined as to render it useless. It’s better to focus on the one conflict-of-interest that, with very limited exceptions, fiduciaries have had to outright ban for centuries. Ironically, in contrast to this precedent, it remains the one conflict-of-interest the DOL expressly permits.
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It’s in everyone’s best interest to be successful, so it’s part of a fiduciary’s duty to show them how.
Government AWOL, Fiduciary Name Game continues, and should fees be determined by the marketplace or the courts?
Long-term investors like retirement savers can easily act like a fiduciary for their own assets. All they need to do is look in a mirror – but not for their own reflection. Look in a mirror a retirement professional is looking into and see how that reflection invests for retirement.
Tax cuts and retirement, crossing the fiduciary streams, and the rise of the anti-indexers.
With a GOT-based strategy, expectations are predicated on needs, not the happenstance of the market. GOT-based portfolios may not have the record-breaking excitement of market indices, but it’s slow-and-steady-wins-the-race philosophy may lead to a more comfortable retirement.
Celebrating a week of thankfulness, for bad news headlines, continuing interest in fees, and that ever open mind searching for the “coming (investment) thing.”
Horse trading, sales/advice, and market tops.
For that to work, however, it’s not enough to change the titles brokers use – to make them call their sales representatives “salespeople” and call their services “sales recommendations” – you’d also have to completely change the way they market themselves so that their marketing messages are consistent with their regulatory status.
FiduciaryNews.com Trending Topics for ERISA Plan Sponsors: Week Ending 2/9/18
Top-down retirement policy ideas, “What? I pay Fees?” and what we remember (and don’t) about market volatility